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SSM Automations

Links: 114 AWS SOA Index

SSM Automations

  • Simplifies common maintenance and deployment tasks of EC2 instances and other AWS resources.
    • Example: restart instances, create an AMI, EBS snapshot
  • Automation Runbook
    • SSM Documents of type Automation
    • Defines actions preformed on your EC2 instances or AWS resources
    • Pre-defined runbooks (AWS) or create custom runbooks
  • Can be triggered
    • Manually using AWS Console, AWS CLI or SDK
    • By Amazon EventBridge
    • On a schedule using Maintenance Windows
    • By AWS Config for rules remediations
  • Automations are from outside the EC2 instances whereas run command was from inside the EC2 instances.
  • An example use case would be restarting a whole fleet of EC2 instances without SSH access and without coding (by using AWS defined runbooks).
A user is attempting to connect to an Amazon Linux instance using SSH and is experiencing errors. A SysOps Administrator has checked the configuration including key pairs, security groups, and network ACLs and confirmed that the user can connect to other instances in the same subnet. What can the Administrator do to further troubleshoot the issue?

Run the AWSSupport-TroubleshootSSH automation.

Last updated: 2023-03-13